Ex-militant, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has pleaded with Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos to set aside...
Ex-militant, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has pleaded with
Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos to set aside the warrant
of arrest issued against him.
Justice Buba had on January 14 issued
a bench warrant against Tompolo and ordered his arrest for failing to honour a
court summons dated January 12 to appear in respect of a 40-count of alleged
N34bn fraud levelled against him and nine others by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission.
On January 14, while all his
co-accused persons were in court with their lawyers, Tompolo was absent and was
not represented by any counsel.
The EFCC prosecutor, Festus Keyamo,
had then applied under Section 131 of the Administration of Criminal Justice
Act 2015 for an order to arrest Tompolo and bring him to court to answer the
charges against him.
While granting the order, Justice
Buba had said there was a proof that the EFCC had served the summons and the
charge sheet on Tompolo by pasting them on the wall of his residence at No. 1,
Chief Agbanu DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State.
The judge ordered that Tompolo should
be arrested and produced in court on February 8 to answer the charges.
But Tompolo has filed an application
through his lawyers, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, seeking
an order of the court to set aside the warrant of arrest issued against him, on
the claim that the EFCC did not serve him with the summons and the charge
sheet.
